Washing device.



W. M. ELIAS.

WASHING DEVICE.

APPLICATION FILED OUT. 7, 1911 1,051,493, Patented $11.28, 1913.

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WILLIAM M. ELIAS, OF NEW YORK, N. Y.

WASHING DEVICE.

Application filed Gctober 7, 1911.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Jan. 238, 18- 13.

Serial No. 653,3 51.

To aid whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, VVILLIAM M. ELIAS, a citizen of the United States,residing at New York city, in the county of New York and State of NewYork, have invented new and useful Improvements in Washing Devices, ofwhich the following is a specification.

An object of the invention is to provide a device for facilitating thewashing of clothes and the like, by subjecting them to the cleansingaction of hot water or steam.

My invention embodies more particularly a device, preferably adapted tobe mounted within the usual. wash boiler, the clothes to be washed beingarranged within the boiler so that when the water contained in theboiler is heated to the boiling point, streams of water will be thrownonto the clothes and passed therethrough to clean the same, a completecirculation of the water being effected in the operation.

My invention further embodies a device having adjustable features, thusenabling the use of the device in connection with boilers of varioussizes and dimensions, coincident with the amount of materials that areto be cleansed at one time.

Reference is to be had to the accompany ing drawings constituting a partof this specification, in which similar characters of reference denotecorresponding parts in all the views, and in which-- Figure 1 is a sideelevation of a wash boiler, my device being mounted therein, parts ofthe said boiler and the device being broken away to disclose theunderlying structure. Fig. 2 is a plan view of the wash boiler showingmy device mounted therein, the cover of the boiler being removed. Fig. 3is a fragmentary vertical transverse sectional view of my device, takensubstantially on the line 33 in Fig. 2. Fig. 4 is a fragmentaryelevation of a tubular member of one of the tanks, showing the adjustingpins thereon. Fig. 5 is a fragmentary elevation of one of the pipes,showing the bayonet slot therein.

Referring more particularly to the views, I provide a base 10, havingintegral depending flanges 11, constituting a track 12, as shown in Fig.3 and a second smaller base 13 provided with integral depending flanges1 1-, slidably engaging the track 12 so that the smaller base 13 can becollapsed. within the base 10, the mentioned bases 10 and 13 beingpreferably shaped like the base of a rash boiler 15 so that the saidbases can be mounted to repose on the bottom of the wash boiler andadjusted to the particular size of the boiler as shown in Figs. 1 andThe bases 10 and 13 are provided with registering rows of apertures 16and mounted on the outer end of each of the bases are similar tanks 17provided with tops 18 and open at their bottoms, the bases 10 and 13being provided with openings over which the tanks 17 are mounted, thesaid tanks being rigidly secured to the bases in any preferred manner.

As mentioned, the base 13 is collapsible vithin the base 10 and byreferring to Fig. 2 it will be seen that the upper side of the base 10partially incloses the upper side of the base 13, the sliding movementof the base 10 on the base 13 being limited by the tank 17, mounted onthe base 13 so that when the base 13 is telescoped within the base 10,the outer end of the base 10 abutting against the mentioned tank 17 willnot only limit the inward sliding movement of the base 10, but willprevent the outer end of the base 13 from overlapping the open ingformed in the base 10 and over which the other tank 17 is mounted.

The tops 18 of the tanks 17 are provided with openings in which aresecured tubular members 19, the said members being mounted to extendupwardly from the tops and arovided on their exterior sides withlaterally extending headed pins 20, the said pins being preferablyarranged in vertical alinement on each member 19. A plurality of pipes21, having their upper ends curved to form elbows 22, are mounted on thetanks 17 with the lower ends of the said pipes encircling the members 19and slidable thereon. Each of the pipes 21 is provided with a verticalslot 23 from which are extended lateral slots 241-, the mentioned slots23 and 24: constituting the usual. bayonet slot. By referring to Figs. 4and 5 it will be seen that when one of the pipes 21 is mounted to encircle one of the tubular members 19 the pins 20 will be received in theslot 23 and when the pipe has been properly positioned on the tubularmember, the said pipe is subjected to a slight turning movement so thatthe pins 20 will be received in the slots 24, thus retaining the pipe inlocked position on the tubular member as shown in Fig. 1. In a similarmanner, when it is desired to adjust the height of the pipes 21relatively to the boiler 15, the said pipes are turned slightly so thatthe pins 20 will be received in the vertical slots 23 thus unlocking thepipes from the tubular members and permitting the same to be slidupwardly a certain distance and again slightly turned to lock the pipesto the tubular members, it being understood that the pins 20 areequidistantly spaced apart and the slots 24 are arranged similarly sothat any of the pins 20 can be received in any of the slots 2st, itbeing further understood and shown in the drawings that the tubularmembers 19 are of sufiicient height to prevent the disclosure of anopening in the pipes, regardless of the manner in which the pipes areadjustably mounted on the tubular members, the height of the saidtubular members being greater than that of the ends of the slots 23 whenthe pipes 21 are mounted in their uppermost positions on the tubularmembers.

In the use of my device, a quantity of water is first poured into theboiler 15 and my device is then mounted in the boiler as shown in Fig.1, the bases 10, 13 being relatively adjusted to cover the bottom of theboiler and the pipes 21 being mounted so that the open ends of theelbows 22 will point inwardly and toward eachother. A suflicientquantity of soiled clothes are now arranged in the boiler 15, betweenthe pipes 21 and the tanks 17, the said clothes being mounted to reposeon the upper sides of the bases 10, 13. The water in the boiler 15 isnow subjected to the action of heat and when the water reaches theboiling point, the hot water will flow outwardly from the upper ends ofthe pipes 21 and flowing onto the clothes, will pass through the sameand impregnate the clothes, thus cleansing the vaseen that a completecirculation of water in the boiler, is effected and as long as heat isapplied to the water to boil the same, continuous steady streams ofboiling water will be exhausted from the upper ends of the pipes 21 andthoroughly impregnate the clothes.

Vith a device of the character described the tedious process ofsubjecting the clothes to the action of arubbing board is dispensedwith.

Various parts of the device can be disconnected for arrangement in acompact package, thus facilitating the transportation of the device.

I claim In a washing device, the combination with a perforated base, ofa track formed thereon, a second base, flanges formed on the said secondbase and slidable on the said track, tanks rigidly mounted on the saidbases and retained in spaced relation by an edge of one of the basesabutting against the tank on the other base, and tubular members mountedto extend upwardly from the said tanks.

In testimony whereof I afiiX my signature in presence of two witnesses.

7M. BRODHAG, Jr, T. W. J OHNSTONE.

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